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THORNING

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

THORNING is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

THORNING root THORN-ing

noun
  1. A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.
  2. Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.
  3. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
    • the white thorn
    • the cockspur thorn
  4. figurativelyThat which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
  5. A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
verb
  1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).